Ghost Writer on Out of the Blue
#bcb7ad on #1199ee
Body text at this size
And the smaller size most interfaces actually use for paragraphs — the size that decides whether a pair is usable.
Caption text, which almost nothing passes.
WCAG 2.1
1.54:1
Fails AA
Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.
APCA
Lc -18.3
Clears Lc 15 — disabled or purely decorative text, which is not meant to be read.
Light text on a darker ground — the negative sign is the polarity.
Colour difference
ΔE00 33.5
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#302c24 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #1199ee, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.
And to someone missing a cone
protanopia
Ratio 1.40:1, ΔE00 32.3.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.63:1, ΔE00 36.0.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.92:1, ΔE00 49.4.
The weakest of the three is protanopia, where the two are ΔE00 32.3 apart against 33.5 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Ghost Writer ·Out of the Blue · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs